Our three thematic subject groups enable development and exchange of knowledge and expertise. Staff and graduate students belong to one or more of these groups, as suited to their academic interests.
The Department supports interdisciplinary research across a number of the University’s Institutes, Centres and research networks.
Social anthropology is the study of social and cultural life in the various forms this takes in relation to the many contexts where this is found.
The Anthropology of Health group bridges biological and social anthropology, community medicine, evolutionary medicine, social epidemiology and public health.
Our research in Evolutionary Anthropology is highly interdisciplinary and uses a range of approaches, including observational studies, experiments on social transmission and cultural evolution, comparative analysis and theoretical modelling.
Durham University produces world leading and world changing research. The Anthropology Department is involved in a diverse range of research centres and institutes.
We are one of the largest departments of Anthropology in the UK, spanning social anthropology, evolutionary anthropology and the anthropology of health.
A vibrant postgraduate research community gives you one of the most diverse and exciting research environments in the UK. Together we carry out research on every inhabited continent including everything from primate behaviour to rhetoric culture and indigenous knowledge to internet technologies.
Contact us to find out more about undergraduate and postgraduate opportunities in our Department.
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